KTOK: Rowland Joins Prater Staff

By Jerry Bohnen, NewsRadio 1000 KTOK ~ After several years as legal counsel to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Scott Rowland is resigning to be First Assistant to Oklahoma County District Attorney-elect David Prater.

Rowland's resignation from the OBNDD is effective December 31st. He will become the number two man in the D-A's office when Prater is sworn into office. Rowland admits he was taken aback by the job offer because he had no involvement in Prater's campaign to unseat D-A Wes Lane.

"I thought it over a few days and after meeting with David, I realized the things he wants to do, the way in which he wants to do them and the people he wants to bring in to do them with are exactly the way I'd do it were I just elected," said Rowland in an e-mail to KTOK.

Rowland said he didn't want to "sit on the sidelines and watch."

Rowland once was the State Capitol Correspondent for KTOK before going to law school and briefly working with former D-A Bob Macy.

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